If you have a sweet tooth (or a whole mouth full) this is the desert for you! The recipe was easy to follow, but I felt it called for too many ingredients. That's why, right before I was ready to stick these little devils in the oven to bake, I added mini marshmallows on top! What's that you say? Yes, I did. I just felt it needed something to make it a bit more visually appealing, AND I had a half opened bag in the pantry that I needed to use up :)
I thought these were going to taste more like a "Chunky" bar with the raisins and nuts, but to me they tasted more like a blondie than anything else. I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't taste the raisins even though I'm not a huge fan of the little wrinkled fruit. If I ever make this cookie/almost candy bar again, I have noted that the raisins are not needed, plus I think I'd cut the use of the sweetened condensed milk in half. Way to sweet for my tastes. Oh, and I think I'll use white chocolate instead of the semisweet but then if I do that, I may add the raisins back in! Who knows.
If you're interested, this recipe as written by Dorie Greenspan can be found on pages 114-115 of her book, "Baking From My Home To Yours"
I left out the raisins, and added peanut butter chips to the top.
ReplyDeleteI left the raisins out too and found it wasn't too sweet with bittersweet chocolate. Marshmallows sound like over-the-top yumminess!
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